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by Majid Rafizadeh • July 5, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Now comes the more difficult and longer-term task: making sure Iran's regime does not rise again.... Iran is still a revolutionary Islamist state that sees the US as the great Satan, sees Israel as a cancer, and believes that its divine mission is to conquer and export ([link removed]) its Islamist revolution to the West.
* Khamenei's declaration was that of a theocrat who thinks that Trump's Western talk of "you often get more with HONEY than you do with VINEGAR" is laughable, pathetic and that of a "loser." In Khamenei's view, if Trump were not weak or stupid or both, Trump would have killed him. Khamenei no doubt believes that Allah is on his side; that Allah, not Trump, saved him; and that his regime is therefore invincible.
* Anyone who knows this part of the world understands that Khamenei will not thank Trump. Khamenei clearly does not see Trump's reprieve as mercy. Khamenei doubtless sees his survival as a confirmation that Allah protected him, and that it is infidel America that is worthy of contempt and being eliminated.
* The Iranian regime has a long history of attacking and killing Americans, starting with having kidnapped the members of the US embassy and held them for more than a year.
* There is also the possibility that other countries might be eager to sell Iran nuclear components -- for "peaceful purposes," of course.
* There appears to be a dangerous tendency in the West — especially among liberal elites and international bureaucrats — to celebrate ceasefires as solutions. A ceasefire with a regime such as Iran is not a solution or "peace." It is a pause, a breathing space, to regroup, re-arm and resume plotting.
* This must be the end of the Iranian regime. Not a pause. Not another "negotiation." The end. Would the US have let the Nazi Party remain in power after World War II? Anything less, really, is a betrayal of the American people, the amazing Israelis, the extraordinary American pilots, and the West.

Pictured: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows in November 2023: "Death to America will happen. In the new order I am talking about, America will no longer have any important role." (Image source: MEMRI ([link removed]) )

Thanks to the courageous and unapologetic leadership of US President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, severe and long-overdue blows were dealt to the Iranian regime.

The United States and Israel reminded the world that tyranny can be confronted. Now comes the more difficult and longer-term task: making sure Iran's regime does not rise again. That means crippling sanctions, backed by military readiness. That means exposing and dismantling Iran's war machine, propaganda machine and foreign influence operations in Europe, America and Latin America, and preferably the regime itself. Iran is still a revolutionary Islamist state that sees the US as the great Satan, sees Israel as a cancer, and believes that its divine mission is to conquer and export its Islamist revolution to the West.

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